Oh Post Dispatch Letters to the Editor, how I love you. Every time a little bit of civic pride and love for my fair city starts to creep in to my heart, there you are, displaying the crack pottiest letters from only the most sad individuals that think writing to their local newspaper still means something.
Take John Bell.
He hates the new Citygarden.
It looks like this:
In a recent post about the Post Dispatch and their financial troubles, I put a call out for anyone that works there to tell us what its like. That call was answered by a commenter and after reading it, I felt it needed the attention a full post brings. The question posed was “What’s the vibe like there?”
The vibe is not knowing…a numbness that has you just fulfill your duties and go home. It used to be a vibrant place when I first got there, but now there’s alot of empty space, the people who would stop by and say hi don’t have the time to anymore, and everything changes some more in an almost predictable pattern. You can hear it in voices, see it in eyes, and every meeting or email from certain people makes your heart jump into your throat and stay there until your survival is assured.
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I’m not 100% sure that Carol knows what “Jumped the Shark” means, but I am sure she must lead a sad little life to have this bug her so much.
From STLToday’s Letters to the Editor blog:
I think the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has finally jumped the shark. I knew they were biased against Republicans, but to not have put Michael Steele’s picture on the front of Saturday’s newspaper was a major gaffe that spoke volumes. Mr. Steel is the first African-American Chairman of the RNC. He is now the leader of the Republican Party. For the first time in history, the leaders of both political parties are African-American. For the past six months, Mr. Obama has been on the cover of every publication day after day.
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Add the Post-Dispatch to the list of bleeding old-media companies that are forcing everyone they can [read: non-union employees] to take a one-week unpaid furlough.
From BizJournals.com:
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has ordered all 300 of its nonunion employees to take a one-week unpaid furlough.
The newspaper also suspended all 2009 merit raises for nonunion workers and the company match for its 401(k) program.
The Post’s parent, Davenport, Iowa-based Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE), is $1.3 billion in debt, mostly due to its acquisition of Pulitzer Inc. in June 2005.
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Crazy-ass Jeff Hackworth thinks so! He wrote in to the Post Dispatch on Janruary 15th to complain after his eye-opening trip to our state’s capitol in Jefferson City:
I found parking [at the capitol building] to be inadequate and being taxed to park, parking meters, I found it as a determinant to people trying to access our government. I would like to see a law put in place that forbids the taxing, charging to park, on public street or public property of any government facility upon the two closest streets on each side around any government facility. This would aid in our elected officials to hear more from constituents when the constituents don’t have to pay a tax, a fee to be able to approach an elected officiator a public building. Because Jefferson City has decided to tax, parking meters, persons desiring to see the capitol or see their elected official.
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